NBC's Today Beats GMA for First Week Since 2012 Summer Olympics

ABC’s Good Morning America may have pulled a mid-Olympics upset over NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday of last week, but early ratings number show that over the course of the first week of the Winter Games in Sochi, Today beat GMA in both total viewers and the 25-54 demo, breaking an 18 month streak by the morning leader of late. It was the first time NBC topped ABC for a full week since the week of August 6th, 2012, when NBC was carrying the Summer Olympics from London.

From February 10-14th, NBC’s Today averaged 6.221M total viewers and 2.545M in the demo, while ABC’s GMA averaged 6.010M total viewers and 2.360M in the demo. It was Today’s biggest audience since their April 2011 coverage of the British royal wedding.

The Sochi Olympics also appear to have helped NBC’s Meet The Press, which was #1 on Sunday, February 9th and had its highest total viewer ratings since December 2012.

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Indonesia: John Kerry beats mosque drum to call Muslims to prayer

If John Kerry went into a cathedral and rang the bells, there would probably be a lot of indignation about it in the mainstream media even more if a Republican Secretary of State did it. Outraged editorials would huff and puff about the “separation of church and state,” and call on the Secretary to be more “inclusive.” But no one will mind this. The U.S., after all, builds mosques in other countries only if it built a church would the “wall of separation” be unacceptably breached.

“Kerry Tours Giant Mosque In Indonesia,” from Carbonated.TV, February 16 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spent part of his Sunday in his stocking feet at an Indonesian mosque, at one point beating a huge drum used to call Muslims to prayer.

Kerry’s visit to the modern Istiqlal Mosque in central Jakarta, said to be the largest mosque in Southeast Asia with a capacity of 130,000, was designed to demonstrate his respect for Islam as he visited the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

Kerry spent about 20 minutes touring the mosque, chatting briefly with women studying Islamic law and admiring the blue ceiling of its dome.

Having removed his shoes in keeping with Islamic custom, Kerry at one point was shown a gigantic, skin-covered drum which rests sideways on the mosque’s floor and stood several feet taller than his head.

After witnessing a demonstration by the Grand Imam, identified by the State Department as K.H. Ali Mustafa Yaqub, Kerry then used a club to beat the drum, which is used to call Muslims to prayer.

“It has been a special honor to visit this remarkable place of worship,” Kerry said in a handwritten note to memorialize his visit. “We are all bound to one God and the Abrahamic faiths tie us together in love for our fellow man and honor for the same God.”

Source: Jihadwatch
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